pnyx

[Gr. pnyx.] The place of public a embly at Athens, especially during elections. It was situated on a low hill, sloping down to the north, at the western verge of the city, and at a quarter of a mile to the west of the Acropolis. IMG:content-1251.png:[blocks in formation] acece.] Bot. A tribe of Graminacese. Spikelets one or more flowered, articulate above the empty glumes. Lowest, or all the flowering glumes bi-sexual, except in Phragmites, Avena, and Arrhenatherum; upper often male or rudimentary. ( Sir J. Hooker .)